. >> host: who is ben kincaid? >> guest: ben kincaid is a a lead np, and his partner is elijah jackson. and normally they are charged with enforcing curfew in keeping gis on the straight and narrow and out of the bars after curfew. but they get pulled in because the national police don't want to investigate this particular incident because it involves an american. oddly enough, at the height of the war there were 20,000 american tourists who visited vietnam a year. i was shocked to read that trauma so peter prichard, you're writing about something 50 plus years ago. do you you have experience in vietnam? >> guest: yes. i also wanted to write about the antiwar culture, which i experienced. i went to college at dartmouth in the 1960s, and when i was a senior i watched four professors get on the steps of the dartmouth hall and announce that they were sending their medals back to lyndon johnson because they thought the vietnam war was an unjust and illegal war. and it dawned on me and i've been reading about the draft

. >> was ben kincaid? his partner is elijah jackson.y they are charged with enforcing curfew. and keeping the gis on the straight and narrow and out of the bars after curfew. they get pulled him because the police do not want to invest at this particular incident because it involves an american. oddly enough at the height of their their 20000 american tourists who visited vietnam a year end arere shocked to read that. >> peter you are writing about 50 plus years ago. do you have experience in vietnam? >> yes. i also wanted to write about the antiwar cultural experience. i went to college at dartmouth in the 1960s. and when i was a senior i watch for professors it on the steps and say they're going to send their metals back to lyndon johnson laid out the vietnam war was an unjust and illegalan war. and it dawned on me i been reading about the draft that i could get caught up in this even before i started my adult life. so i tried to get out of the war. i was a draft dodger the best i could use teach english to kids in massachusetts. they